Kemi Badenoch had an annoyingly good Prime Minister’s Questions today: annoying for her, because no one will remember it. The scrap between the party leaders before the Budget is always overshadowed by the fiscal event that follows immediately afterwards, but the Tory leader made good use of it anyway. She focused all her questions on Andy Burnham’s confusion over Britain’s relationship with the European Union. 

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Badenoch opened by asking whether the Prime Minister wanted a referendum on rejoining the EU, to which Burnham replied that the ‘red lines’ in his party’s 2024 manifesto would remain. (Those red lines are ‘we will be confident........

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